“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”
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“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.”
“Women would rather be right than reasonable.”
“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”
“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.”
“Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.”
“Most women are not as young as they are painted.”
“The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.”
“And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.”
“I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.”
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”
“I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.”
“In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.”
“Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.”
“Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.”
“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
“In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.”
“When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.”
“I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.”
“I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.”
“I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.”
“I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.”
“I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.”
“In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.”